小羅伯特•唐尼身兼製片主演顯才情

We recently heard about a new starring vehicle for Robert Downey, Jr. in the form of Yucatan, the first priority project for Team Downey, the production banner founded by the actor and his wife Susan Downey. Now Team Downey has another project in the works as Columbia Pictures has announced, via press release, their option of the rights to Neil Strauss' non-fiction book Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life. In addition to producing the project, there's a chance that Downey could star in the film as well. Also, much buzzed about screenwriter Allan Loeb (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) will script the adaptation。

　　If you're unfamiliar with the book, Columbia's press release describes the material like this:

目前，性格男星小羅伯特•唐尼正忙於剛開機的《福爾摩斯2》，他與妻子蘇珊•唐尼成立了製作公司“Team Downey”即將投拍電影《Yucatan》，而這家夫妻檔公司的第二個案子也於近日浮上水面。唐尼找來哥倫比亞電影公司，有意將尼爾•斯特勞斯的紀實性小說《Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life》搬上銀幕，而小羅伯特本人則有望出演，而《華爾街2》的編劇阿倫•勒布有可能加盟，撰寫劇本。

'Emergency' traces one man’s story of a dangerous world–and how to stay alive in it or die trying. It is Strauss’s white-knuckled journey through a country that’s lost its sense of safety, as one man equips himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future. He sets out to move his life offshore, and in the process, he learns to survive in the wild, and remake himself as a gun-toting, lock-picking, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It’s a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdoes, heroes, and ordinary citizens taking their families off the grid。

Sounds like some sort of coming-of-age, alternate reality version of Tony Stark where he didn't become Iron Man. Downey's comeback has proven to be truly remarkable after his bouts with substance abuse so many years ago. In addition to rising from the ashes with an insanely successful acting career, it's good to see him moving behind-the-scenes, and even producing his own projects as he continues to make waves in the industry that almost killed him previously. As long as Downey keeps making intriguing projects like this and the forthcoming Oz: The Great and Powerful, I don't think he'll be slowing down anytime soon. Sound good?

據電影公司介紹，《Emergency》描述了主人公克服惡劣環境中，保護家人，求得生存的故事。

昔日浪蕩不羈的小羅伯特-唐尼自從前幾年迴歸影壇後便一路春風得意，取得的成績好萊塢有目共睹，而不滿足於成功表演事業的他開始涉足電影幕後工作，拍攝創作出自己的作品，而即將上演的《Oz: The Great and Powerful》已經備受關注，照如此勢頭髮展，小羅伯特的影壇之路必定愈加寬廣。